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Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier : Memoires

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightful -- yet I am only just now reading them -- & the Duc de St Simon's also. I have a sort of Memoir brain fever at the present season-- Don't you think so?'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier : Memoires

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843: 'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightful memoirs. She was fifty or past it when she met Lauzun, & the tears ran down my cheeks as I read the recitation of her love sorrows.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

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